Jesse Wolfhagen

YouTube video by Red Bull I Skied Down Mount Everest (world first, no oxygen)

This is absolutely. batshit. insane.

And one of the most beautifully terrifying things I've ever watched.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjZv...

EVERY SINGLE

CASH PROGRAM

LIKE THIS

WORKS

you ever think about how a horse can generate 15 horsepower

Swedish musician teaches a highly intelligent octopus to play piano Deep-sea virtuoso learns to play using crab incentive...

www.classicfm.com/music-news/v...

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

tfw you finish watching ep 1 of a new show, instead of ep2, the streaming app starts ep 1 of an entirely diff show, & you connect the storyline, by filling in the gaps, w/o skipping a beat. that's how powerful our sense of narrative construction is. and why science needs extra vigilance & humility.

I was so worried about where this would go until Michael went "if you're an archaeologist, you're screaming right now". I was!!

Trans Day of Remembrance

If you've lost a family member or friend because of violence or rejection, I support and affirm you today

*I support and affirm your lost one*

Tomorrow I support and affirm our trans siblings who don't need to be remembered yet because they're living their best lives

🩵🤍🩷

Sapiens Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m

Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

Viking Age woman found buried with scallop shells on her mouth, and archaeologists are mystified A ninth-century grave discovered in Norway held the remains of a Viking Age woman whose mouth was covered with two large scallop shells.

The Vikings, once again, are baffling archaeologists. This time, with an unusual burial ritual involving scallop shells. 🏺🧪

Paleogenomics Reveals a Loss of Bovine Lineages in Mid-latitude Asia Over the Last 200,000 Years Abstract. Bovines have a complex yet poorly understood evolutionary history that is characterized by admixture and diversity loss during the Late Pleistoce

Our manuscript on bovine deep-time paleogenomics at Denisova Cave and in the broader mid-latitude Asia is online! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🦬🦴🧬

Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️

@cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA

Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.

Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...

A graphic with a colorful gradient background. Text reads: "Boston honors Transgender Day of Remembrance. Today, we remember the lives of our trans friends and neighbors lost to acts of anti-transgender violence." Mayor Wu's signature is at the bottom of the graphic.

On Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember and amplify the memories of all those we have lost to anti-transgender violence.

This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The claim “vaccines do not cause autism” is the very definition of an evidence-based claim. Over a million children have been studied in every valid, ethical experimental design scientists can think of. More evidence-based claims: infections can kill people & we have vaccines that keep people alive.

A graphic from the Atlantic showing the preference for left or right footed shooting among Premier Leage strikers, laid out as two feet covered in dots corresponding to higher share of either left or right footed shots. It is superficially similar to the famous plane diagram showing shots taken in air battles, as a test case in Survivorship Bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.

Actually the question that occurs to me is "will you nominate him anyway even after years of people telling you they won't vote for him if you do, and then when you lose as you were warned you would, will you blame not yourselves but the people who warned you."

I watched Yarvin’s Sheldonian lecture. What struck me is that he’s describing real institutional failures, but he completely misdiagnoses the cause. He treats “democracy” as the problem, when the actual collapse is upstream.

they’re just using the threat of fascism to bludgeon you into accepting their limp dicked non-opposition and protection of the status quo

first they came for trans people and i wasn’t quiet, i spoke up, i said “are you really going to die on this hill? there’s an election to win!” because i am not trans.

insightful thread I’ll be thinking about a while here:

Bill Cassidy should be required to have this shit framed and hung where he can see it every time he sits at his desk

this is the bargain you made, asshole

you knew better and you did this to the rest of us anyway

Leave it to scientists to come up with the absolute least romantic definition of kissing 🧪

Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.

Mamdani validating scare campaign by meeting with noted antisemite

Neanderthals and early humans ‘likely to have kissed’, say scientists Study from University of Oxford looks into evolutionary origins of kissing and its role in relations between species

Add kissing to the list of things Homo sapiens and Neanderthals did together 🥹 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Two photographs of the sides of trenches, separated into stratigraphic layers and annotated with numbers.

NEW Stratigraphy from two of the 51 Aketala sites in the Tarim Basin of north-western China. The westernmost Bronze Age settlements discovered in China to date, they indicate cultural connections across Central Asia c. 4000 years ago.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)

Royal Society B cover with AI generated image of endocasts.

AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.